Movies by Wiktor Grotowicz

I Like Bats
Izabella, a beautiful young woman, works at her aunt’s shop in a small town in Poland. She uses her hands to create unique small objects for the shop, but in the night she has the strange habit to feed bats.

Fever
The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at the disposal of young inexperienced terrorists fighting against Tsarist oppression. The story follows the passing of this bomb from anarchist to anarchist as several attempts are made on the life of Tsarist governor general, until, at the end, it is effectively and harmlessly defused by a bomb expert. The presence...
Fatalista
Adaptation of a short story by Michał Lermontow. Forces stationed in the Caucasus. Lieutenant Wulicz is a fatalist. He believes that everyone has a fate that cannot be avoided. To prove it, he puts a loaded pistol to his temple ... but it doesn't fire. Lieutenant Pechorin listens doubtfully to his colleague's arguments. Accompanied by a premonition, Wulicz will die soon. Will his premonitions prove to be prophetic?
Kwiat paproci
By a twist of fate, a Warsaw crook becomes a translator at a reunion of high school graduates in a small town. There he learns about a treasure buried by the participants of the ceremony. The film, completed in 1972 was shelved by the censors and believed lost until it was found and finally released in 2009.